The Magic already were 8-for-13 from the free-throw line when Gustavo Ayón was fouled with the Magic trailing 95-93 with 2.4 seconds left. Ayón missed the first foul shot. When he missed the second intentionally, Utah's Jamaal Tinsley corralled the basketball, effectively ending the game.

"At the end, I had the chance to tie the game," Ayón said through a translator. "I wasn't able to do it, but we have to keep working."

What the Magic (12-15) really need to do is cut down on their turnovers.

The carelessness has been a recurring problem. The team entered the day ranked 21st in the NBA in turnovers, averaging 15.4 per game.

Sunday brought more than usual.

J.J. Redick gave the ball away seven times. Nelson lost the ball four times. Arron Afflalo committed three turnovers. Nik Vucevic had two.

"I think it was the turnovers that hurt us," Vucevic said. "We had a nice lead and we could have maybe put them away."

All too true.

After a masterful first quarter that left them ahead 30-18, the Magic took a 16-point lead in the second quarter.

But Orlando turned the ball over seven times in the period. Not coincidentally, Utah outscored Orlando by 11 points in the quarter.

"We should've won that game," Redick said.

Vucevic and Ayón made up for the absence of injured power forward Glen Davis.

Vucevic finished with 16 points and 16 rebounds.

He helped limit Jazz center Al Jefferson to just 12 points on 6-of-14 shooting by keeping Jefferson out of the paint and by not biting on Jefferson's bread-and-butter move, the pump fake.

Ayón made the first start of his Magic tenure and finished with nine points and a season-high 12 rebounds.

"He did so much just to get us in a position to even have a chance to win," Orlando coach Jacque Vaughn said. "It never boils down to one particular play."

Davis' absence had a side effect: It forced players who hadn't played alongside each other often to log significant minutes together. That unfamiliarity might have contributed to the turnover problems.

Still, the Jazz (15-14) forced some of those miscues by playing tough.

That physicality frustrated Redick, who thought Jazz players weren't whistled for fouls in the teams' game Dec. 5 in Salt Lake City and again Sunday.

"There were four or five times in the span of 10 minutes where my jersey kept coming out as I was running off screens," Redick said. "As I'm running off screens, he was just pulling on my jersey just as a way to stay with me. And I made a point to the refs, politely, that was happening."

Then, Redick lost his cool after another perceived foul by Burks. The refs whistled him for his second technical foul in Orlando's last two games.

Gordon Hayward made the ensuing free throw, which put Utah up 83-82 with 6:34 to go.

The Magic had plenty to be upset about from that point on.

They turned the ball over seven times in the fourth quarter.

They also missed a few close-range shots.

Paul Millsap blocked a shot by Ayón with 1:09 remaining that would've tied the score 92-92. Afflalo collected the rebound, but he missed a 3-footer.